From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:45:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20050419004548.GA21623@kroah.com> References: <20050419001126.GB21170@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 19 02:45:11 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNgrC-00054G-RL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:44:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261234AbVDSAsW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:48:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261231AbVDSAsW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:48:22 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:29658 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261234AbVDSAqg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:46:36 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-118-199.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.118.199]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3J0kQi23829; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:46:27 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1DNgs9-5d2-00; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:45:49 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Here's a small patch to commit-tree.c that does two things: > > Gaah, I really was hoping that people wouldn't feel like they have to lie > about their committer information. > > I guess we don't have much choice, but I'm not happy about it. Well Russell has stated that he has to for EU Privacy reasons. And I'd like to do it as I don't have a local suse.de hostname for my laptop and my employer probably doesn't really want my greg@dunce.kroah.org address showing up :) But if you really don't like it, and you don't want anyone trying to hide anything, at least allow for a proper domainname. On my boxes, the domainname doesn't show up at all without that patch (just the getdomainname() part). I'll split it out if you want. thanks, greg k-h